Forked Branches. Translations of Medieval Poems. Edited by Charlotte Ward, with an Introduction by James Laughlin
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, . 1985. One of 200 copies. Colored frontispiece wood-engraving by Dellas Henke, after Dorothy Shakespear. Printed in blue and black in handset Romanee and Lutetia on cream Rives mould-made paper. With the original language and the modern English on facing pages. A fine copy, with publisher’s prospectus laid in. Charcoal cloth over paste-paper boards, spine stamped in black. Tall octavo. xvi, [87] pp. Item #16093
This is one of the press’s most ambitious publications. It brings together translations from Yale’s important Pound collection, including many that were hitherto unpublished. Included are a fragment of Anglo-Saxon verse, translations of poems by the French Troubadours and translations from the Italian, including the work of Guido Cavalcanti. Pound produced this material between 1905 and 1943.
Berger 86.
Price: $275.00